What is going to annoy motorists is that only sections of the above roads will have speed restrictionsConfused motorists to be pinged ?Hutt Street will be between Wakefield Street and South TerraceReallyWhy not the whole of Hutt Street ?Imagine the chagrin of the unawares motorists who have driven on this Street for years getting pinged for speedingNot for being speed merchants but for being unawaresHutt Street will be trialled between Dec 15[2013] -June 20[2014]

Sections of Woodville/The Parade/Melbourne Streets may also be changed to 40kmWoodville Road,why ?

The Hutt Street speed changes went ahead, but were also abandonedPerhaps the traders kicked up a fuss, and had it over turned ?

As for Woodville Road , I know of 2 people sprung thinking it was still a 60 zoneDespite the warning on the post, I was one of them, at 58kmsIve now been sprung 4 times this century speeding3 times in 50 zones, thinking they were 60 zonesThe other time just below 70 in a 60 zone, I treasure that one

FINES ASSETT TESTED ?A community based charity has called for fines to be made fairer for low income earnersIn the last financial year 71,000 fines were paid by installments and delayed by up to 6 months , predominantly by those who cant afFORD it

The call wants fines worked out on a persons incomeUsing this logic if James Packer or an unemployed person was caught speeding, James would have to pay a higher fine than the welfare recipient

CURRENT INFRINGEMENT FINESIf you exceed by the following kms:Demerit points listed in brackets 1-9.......$223 [2]10-19....$417 [3]20-29....$786 [5]30-44....$926 [7]45+......$1035[9]

SOLUTION ?Perhaps the logic could be if you cant pay the fine within the prescribed time , you should not be able to drive until the debt is settled ?Banning rather than fining motorists could perhaps be a deterrent ?

James Packer who just lost/gave $1 billion to his sister would have a driver, i agree there should be a scale for lower income earners, there should be a limit & a maximum though, a $300.00 fine could ruin one person/family for several weeks & others it isn't even a deterrent............obviously if you do not speed it doesn't matter........................................what irks me is when driving through roadworks (which are everywhere at the moment) at 25 kph & cars pass you & abuse you when going past, these idiots i wish would get caught before a road worker gets knocked over

Not only roadworks these days.You have service infrastructure people that close roads.A lot of development close to roads requires traffic management.And we will see more of that with our inner suburban main arterials being rezoned to 5 stories.

Traffic management is now par for the course in this area, whereas once it wasn't so prevalent.

More from the press November 2/11* The number of drivers receiving cautions instead of traffic fines has surged to almost 60,000 last year and police officers sympathetic to the impact of bill shock are contributing to the trend, welfare groups believe.SA police statistics show that as a proportion of all police interaction with law breaking motorists 'cautions' have jumped by more than 50 percent in 3 years.Uniting Communities spokesman DW said figures reflected the emotional trauma faced by many low income people when having to pay fines they cant afFORD" The police have motorists who are struggling to survive on a Centrelink benefit or a minimum wage breaking into tears when faced with yet another fine, so it would not be surprising that many of them [police] may be reacting against this "he said" After all they are only human."

QuestionLetting some people off and not others, is this sending the wrong message?

131444 is the number the public can call to register a complaint against unlaw abiding drivers2012-2013...16172 calls made2013-2014...?2014-2015...21304 calls made

In the financial year of 2014-2015 about half of all calls resulted in warning lettersClose to 1200 road users were either cautioned , reported or arrested

Lets get things into perspective21304 calls made last financial yearIn a 365 day year average calls unrounded are about : 1775 per month409 per week58 per day

OBSERVATIONAbout 58 calls per day is low, considering the amount of times that road laws are brokenRecently , I drove 90 minutes , up and back from Gawler , with a friend, for an Important matterWe counted the amount of times other drivers broke road rulesWe observed that speeding was the main road law brokenIn the last 75 minutes of the transits, we started countingWe did this after a whoosher flew past at about 110kmsIn total we counted about 45 traffic offences in 75 minutesThat rate works out to 36 per hour

At this rate , driving one hour per day , I would have to make 13140 phone calls per year by myself to the hotlineIf I drove 2 hours per day , at that rate , I would exceed the 21304 calls made last financial year by all callers !Please note those stats are on one random viewing, with 2 people involved

ONE OF THE GREATEST FRANCHISESI told the mate, what a great franchise it would be to be a road rangerIf one could collect say 25% commission on road offencesYour own vehicle fitted with camera devices , pointed at various anglesA radar device similar to a speed camera , and up up and away you go

TRAFFIC COPSI mentioned a Road Ranger franchiseThis is more or less happening with traffic police anywaysI have no issues with them catching road law breakers and issuing infringement noticesThe more this happens , in theory more drivers will improve their poorer driving habits

BELT UP INCIDENTHere is an incident I well rememberA motor bike traffic cop nabbed me for not wearing my seat beltAs he was writing an infringement notice , I asked a simple question" How come you are fining me for not wearing a seat belt and you dont wear one on your motor bike?"I thought this was a very fair questionThe answer was abrupt and something like this :" Have you ever pulled someone from a car injured or dying ?I have, and some didnt wear seat belts , let me get on with day please."I learnt an Important lesson that day

Scrappy wrote:TRAFFIC COPSI mentioned a Road Ranger franchiseThis is more or less happening with traffic police anywaysI have no issues with them catching road law breakers and issuing infringement noticesThe more this happens , in theory more drivers will improve their poorer driving habits

BELT UP INCIDENTHere is an incident I well rememberA motor bike traffic cop nabbed me for not wearing my seat beltAs he was writing an infringement notice , I asked a simple question" How come you are fining me for not wearing a seat belt and you dont wear one on your motor bike?"I thought this was a very fair questionThe answer was abrupt and something like this :" Have you ever pulled someone from a car injured or dying ?I have, and some didnt wear seat belts , let me get on with day please."I learnt an Important lesson that day

Seems as though you failed the very first test police conduct on a infringing motorist.

It's called the "attitude test", fail it, you get a fine, pass it with flying colours you may get a warning.

Interesting todayThere were patrols on Regency Road /Churchill RoadI thought it was a breathoI was pulled over , it ends up being a random Driving License and Vehicle defect patrol unitI passed all the testsAll the while thinking, its a slight interruption to my day , but a worthwhile exercise

SOUTH AUSTRALIAN ROAD DEATHS2004...1392005...1472006...1172007...1252008....992009...1192010...1182011...1032012....942013....972014...108

2015 There are 100 fatalities so far as of 15/12/2015

The worst year was 2005 with 147The last 5 years including this year so far have been between 103 -108Quite possibly as population increases, so does the amount of license holdersSo the reduction in fatalities in recent years compared to 2004-2005 is heading in the right direction

Todays stoppage for a License and Vehicle inspection is warranted, as are any other randoms[drink and drug testing in particular]These randoms might =the reduction of fatalities Im happy to give up a few minutes of my life for any of these randoms

131444 is the number the public can call to register a complaint against unlaw abiding drivers2012-2013...16172 calls made2013-2014...?2014-2015...21304 calls made

In the financial year of 2014-2015 about half of all calls resulted in warning lettersClose to 1200 road users were either cautioned , reported or arrested

Lets get things into perspective21304 calls made last financial yearIn a 365 day year average calls unrounded are about : 1775 per month409 per week58 per day

OBSERVATIONAbout 58 calls per day is low, considering the amount of times that road laws are brokenRecently , I drove 90 minutes , up and back from Gawler , with a friend, for an Important matterWe counted the amount of times other drivers broke road rulesWe observed that speeding was the main road law brokenIn the last 75 minutes of the transits, we started countingWe did this after a whoosher flew past at about 110kmsIn total we counted about 45 traffic offences in 75 minutesThat rate works out to 36 per hour

At this rate , driving one hour per day , I would have to make 13140 phone calls per year by myself to the hotlineIf I drove 2 hours per day , at that rate , I would exceed the 21304 calls made last financial year by all callers !Please note those stats are on one random viewing, with 2 people involved

ONE OF THE GREATEST FRANCHISESI told the mate, what a great franchise it would be to be a road rangerIf one could collect say 25% commission on road offencesYour own vehicle fitted with camera devices , pointed at various anglesA radar device similar to a speed camera , and up up and away you go

TRAFFIC WATCHI am 100% totally behind itAnything that leads to safer road use by all , has to be good

those phone calls would be made by a minority of people as most including me couldn't be bothered ringing up when ''something happens'' i see it a lot every day doing deliveries & yes it happens to me too, what irks me is two things, one people passing me when going through roadworks & trying to 'beat me' at roundabouts instead of giving way to the right as is the law, they do this in my opinion because they have a perception that a van is slower, trust me they can go as fast as any car